A Fort Myers woman nearly stabbed to death spoke out against her accused attacker.More >>

A Fort Myers woman nearly stabbed to death spoke out against her accused attacker. Police say the day after Christmas, a Fort Myers man broke into a woman's home in the Paseo community and stabbed her.More >>

Police in Fort Myers made an arrest in a stabbing case that happened in the gated Paseo neighborhood.More >>

Police in Fort Myers made an arrest in a stabbing case that happened in the gated Paseo neighborhood.More >>

FORT MYERS, Fla. -

Fort Myers Police say the man accused of stabbing a woman inside the Paseo community returned to the scene and even spoke with police while wearing a woman's V-neck blouse and knee-high boots.

Police say it was around 4 a.m. when John Maatsch broke into Tracey Marazzi's home and stabbed her in the chest three times while she slept in her bed.

"I don't know how long he stood there and looked at me while I slept before he stabbed me in the chest. He stabbed me three times, just missed my artery, just less than a millimeter, collapsed my lung and almost killed me," Marazzi said.

Police say she was able to fight off Maatsch as her 11-year-old son ran into the room. They got away and ran to a neighbor for help.

Maatsch - who police say is married - only lives a half-mile away in the gated community.

"Right now, we don't have a motive- this is a very perplexing case," said one officer we spoke with Wednesday.

Detectives say a suspect showing up to a crime scene is pretty rare.

"Most people want to be as far from the crime scene as humanly possible. This individual came back and engaged officers in conversation," said the officer.

Officers say Maatsch - who had fresh scratch marks on his hands and arms - told them he'd seen a suspicious person.

They searched his home and found bloody clothes that tested positive for Tracey's DNA.

Detectives arrested him for occupied burglary and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

"Aggravated battery with a deadly weapon carries the same penalty as attempted murder, but you don't have to prove the intent," the officer explained.